History Main / DIYDisaster

* The page image, though an excellent illustration, is neither an example nor in any way a fake. It's from an area of the US where the local aquifer's water has so high a dissolved natural gas content that the residents need to burn it off every now and again.

* There was a HannahMontana episode that centered around this. The kitchen sink led to one of the upstairs bathrooms, resulting in what BillyRayCyrus called a "Mushu-y Shampoo-y", and other complications when Jackson had tackled the aforementioned sink. In the end, though, it turns out that his dinking around [[spoiler saved their house.]]

* The page image is not in any way a fake. It's from an area of the US where the local aquifer's water has so high a dissolved natural gas content that the residents need to burn it off every now and again.

[[caption-width-right:220:...''really?!''[[hottip:*:Though this image is a photoshop, it does depict a [[TruthInTelevision real event]]: people who've agreed to let Energy Companies do exploratory/extractive drilling on their property can end up with natural gas in their water supply, resulting in explosively flammable water on tap.]]]]

->When I flush the john, then your shower goes on!

* ''GastonLagaffe'' meddled with the office building's plumbing once, causing water to spray from Mr. Boulier's heater. On other occasions he turned a fridge into a pressure cooker, made a motorcycle drive in reverse and switched around all the keys on a typewriter.

* ''{{Friends}}'' had an episode that revolved entirely around Monica's frantic search to find out what a power switch did, digging up walls and the floor in the process. In TheStinger, it turned out that it turned on and off the television set in the other apartment, and it turning on and off corresponded perfectly to Phoebe's blinking, leading her to claim she had 'special powers'.

* The [=DIY=] Network's series "Renovation Realities" is about people who decided to renovate their houses after watching the [=DIY=] Network, and who suddenly found out it's ''not'' as easy as those "licensed contractors" make it look.

* In ''{{Discworld}}'', Bloody Stupid Johnson's housing complex turned into a four-dimensions nightmare and his mail-sorting machine was some sort of black-hole-matter-shredder thing.

* ''GastonLagaffe'' meddled with the office building's plumbing once, causing water to spray from Mr. Boulier's heater.

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* Used in just about every commercial for a plumbing service.

->When I flush the john, it turns the shower on!

A DIYDisaster is when a device's faulty nature is shown by the fact that when a button is pushed or a lever is pulled that is supposed to do one thing, it does something else, such as a car's window button activates the windshield wipers. It's frequently used after someone has tried to repair or modify the device in question to show their mechanical ineptitude. In spite of the name, this doesn't need to be the result of a botched do-it-yourself job; the device could be wired that way on purpose, for example. There's also a variation where the electricity and plumbing (and sometimes the gas) get mixed up, [[EpicFail so you get water coming out of the lightbulbs or some similar mix-up]]. Doesn't make the slightest bit of sense, but RuleOfFunny applies.

[[caption-width-right:220:...''really?!'']]

* Though the image at the top is a photoshop, it does depict a [[TruthInTelevision real event]]: people who've agreed to let Energy Companies do exploratory/extractive drilling on their property can end up with natural gas in their water supply, resulting in explosively flammable water on tap.

* iCarly "iPsycho": Spencer attempts to fix a small corner of a counter top, which results in it breaking and being replaced. The new countertop cracks the wall and ceiling, and ends up collapsing the counter itself, as well as shorting out light switch. When he tries to repair the light switch, he cuts a wire and the light falls from the ceiling. He then calls "a dude" to fix everything.